Friends of the Second Amendment
The NRA Institute for Legislative Analysis announced today that three new amici have been filed in the Chicago Gun Case:
- Bipartisan Majority of Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Supporting NRA’s Stance in Pivotal Supreme Court Case
- State Legislators File Amicus Brief Supporting NRA’s Stance in Pivotal Supreme Court Case
- Bipartisan Majority of U.S. Congress Signs Amicus Brief Supporting NRA’s Position in Pivotal Supreme Court Case
I glanced through one of the three briefs today (the U. S. Congress brief) and found the same arguments being made about the Fourteenth Amendment’s applicability. However, there was this interesting passage regarding the role of the Congress in both the Second and Fourteenth Amendments:
Congress has a long history of protecting the right of the people to keep and bear arms. It was Congress, after all, that proposed the Second Amendment, and the rest of the Bill of Rights, to the States in 1789. Congress likewise proposed the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866, following and to further Congress’ attempts in the Freedmen’s Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act to restore to freed slaves their right to keep and bear arms.
